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Despite a push to expand medication-assisted treatment for drug addiction, wait times in L.A. County jails are leading to more overdose deaths, according to jail staffers and inmate advocates.

Out-of-state visitors to the O.C. cities with the highest concentration of addiction treatment centers were 159% more likely ...

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But the coverage you get depends on where you live and the plan you choose. That's because each state has a different set of standards for the type of coverage offered by health plans. That includes ...

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A patient of mine, a veteran who had tried to quit smoking for over a decade, told me that after he started a GLP-1 drug for his diabetes, he lost interest in cigarettes. He didn't use a patch. He ...

Milestone arrives as Nevada remains one of the few states where overdose deaths continue to climb against the national trend.

AS in the rest of the world, there is growing concern in Guyana over the way in which synthetic drugs seem to be replacing traditional illicit narcotics. Compounding this issue is the fact that some ...